WoRMS taxon details
Alexandrium minutum Halim, 1960
AphiaID: 109711
AphiaID: 109711
| Classification: Biota > Chromista (Kingdom) > Harosa (Subkingdom) > Alveolata (Infrakingdom) > Myzozoa (Phylum) > Dinozoa (Subphylum) > Dinoflagellata (Infraphylum) > Peridinea (Class) > Gonyaulacoidia (Subclass) > Gonyaulacida (Order) > Gonyaulacaceae (Family) > Alexandrium (Genus) |
| Status | accepted | |||||||||||||
| Record status | Checked by Taxonomic Editor | |||||||||||||
| Rank | Species | |||||||||||||
| Parent | Alexandrium Halim, 1960 | |||||||||||||
| Synonymised taxa |
Alexandrium angustitabulatum F.J.R.Taylor, 1995 (synonym) Alexandrium ibericum Balech, 1985 (synonym) Alexandrium lusitanicum Balech, 1985 (synonym) Pyrodinium minutum (Halim) Taylor (synonym) | |||||||||||||
| Sources |
original description: Halim Y. 1960. Alexandrium minutum, n. gen. n. sp. dinoflagellé provocant des “eaux rouges”. Vie et Milieu 11: 102-105.
[details] basis of record: Algaebase, available online at http://www.algaebase.org [details] additional source: Tomas, C.R. (Ed.) (1997). Identifying marine phytoplankton. Academic Press: San Diego, CA [etc.] (USA). ISBN 0-12-693018-X. XV, 858 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Hallegraeff G.M., Steffensen D.A. & Wetherbee R. 1988. Three estuarine Australian dinoflagellates that can produce paralytic shellfish toxins. J. Plankton Res. 10: 533-541. [details] additional source: Balech, E. 1995. The Genus Alexandrium Halim (Dinoflagellata). Sherkin Island Marine Station, Sherkin Island, Co. Cork, Ireland, 151. [details] additional source: Moestrup, Ø., Akselman, R., Cronberg, G., Elbraechter, M., Fraga, S., Halim, Y., Hansen, G., Hoppenrath, M., Larsen, J., Lundholm, N., Nguyen, L. N., Zingone, A. (Eds) (2009 onwards). IOC-UNESCO Taxonomic Reference List of Harmful Micro Algae., available online at http://www.marinespecies.org/HAB [details] additional source: Lakkis, S. (2011). Le phytoplancton marin du Liban (Méditerranée orientale): biologie, biodiversité, biogéographie. Aracne: Roma. ISBN 978-88-548-4243-4. 293 pp. (look up in IMIS) [details] additional source: Dyntaxa (2013) Swedish Taxonomic Database. Accessed at www.dyntaxa.se [15-01-2013]., available online at http://www.dyntaxa.se [details] redescription: Balech, E. 1989. Redescription of Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae) type species of the genus Alexandrium. Phycologia 28:206-11. [details] toxicology source: Chang F.H., Anderson D.M., Kulis D.M. & Till D.G. 1997. Toxin production of Alexandrium minutum (Dinophyceae) from the Bay of Plenty, New Zealand. Toxicon 35: 393-409. [details] toxicology source: Oshima Y., Hirota M., Yasumoto T., Hallegraeff G.M., Blackburn S.I. & Steffensen D.A. 1989. Production of paralytic shellfish toxins by the dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum Halim from Australia. Bull. Jap. Soc. Sci. Fish. 55: 925. [details] toxicology source: Franco J.M., Fernandez P. & Reguera B. 1994. Toxin profiles of natural population and cultures of Alexandrium minutum Halim from Galician (Spain) coastal waters. J. Appl. Phycol. 6: 275-279. [details] from synonym: Gómez, F., 2005. A list of free-living dinoflagellate species in the world’s oceans. Acta Bot. Croat. 64 (1), 129-212. [details] [view taxon] [full text] | |||||||||||||
| Environment | marine | |||||||||||||
| Distribution | type locality: Alexandria Harbour [details] Atlantic [details] Atlantic Coast of Spain [details] Australia [details] Central Coast of Brazil [details] European waters (ERMS scope) [details] Irish Sea [details] Lebanese Exclusive Economic Zone [details] Mediterranean Sea [details] Swedish Exclusive Economic Zone (from synonym) [details] [view taxon] Tunisian Exclusive Economic Zone [details] United Kingdom Exclusive Economic Zone [details] | |||||||||||||
| Links | Delivering Alien Invasive Species Inventories for Europe (DAISIE) Published in AlgaeBase  To Barcode of Life (5 barcodes) To Biodiversity Heritage Library (6 publications) To Dyntaxa To GenBank (19018 nucleotides; 14 proteins) To Marine Species Identification Portal To PESI To ITIS | |||||||||||||
| Notes |
Harmful effect: Producer of paralytic shellfish poisoning toxins. [details] status: Cells identified as A. minutum have been reported over a very large geographical area and as some of these are morphologically very different, particularly in the ornamentation of the plates, it is likely that more than one species is involved. [details] | |||||||||||||
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| LSID | urn:lsid:marinespecies.org:taxname:109711 | |||||||||||||
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| Citation: WoRMS (2013). Alexandrium minutum Halim, 1960. In: Guiry, M.D. & Guiry, G.M. (2013). AlgaeBase. World-wide electronic publication, National University of Ireland, Galway (taxonomic information republished from AlgaeBase with permission of M.D. Guiry). Accessed through: World Register of Marine Species at http://www.marinespecies.org/aphia.php?p=taxdetails&id=109711 on 2013-05-25 | ||||||||||||||
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